Finance This post contains affiliate links. Full disclosure here. I’m going to tell you something that might surprise you, coming from a CPA. Most investing advice is designed to make you trade. Not to make you wealthy. Brokerages and trading apps — they make money when you buy and sell. CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg —…
Beach Living In 2009, I moved to San Diego. Then Los Angeles. Then Dallas. In 2020, I moved back to Pennsylvania, survived one winter, and asked myself the question that changed everything: Why am I here? In the summer of 2021, I bought a condo in North Myrtle Beach. Not a mansion. Not a multi-unit…
Earned Leisure There’s a feeling you get on the right kind of Saturday morning. The coffee is strong and it’s yours — not a rushed cup at a drive-through, but a real cup, brewed the way you like it, in a mug that fits your hand. The morning is quiet. Maybe there’s a notebook open….
Earned Leisure This post contains affiliate links. Full disclosure here. I am an independent BODi Affiliate and may earn a commission on BODi purchases, at no extra cost to you. #BODiAffiliate I get up at 3 AM. Before the phone starts buzzing, before any notification has a chance to hijack my attention, I’m already moving:…
Fitness This post contains affiliate links. Full disclosure here. I am an independent BODi Affiliate and may earn a commission on BODi purchases, at no extra cost to you. #BODiAffiliate On January 2, 2008, I stepped on a scale and saw 256 pounds. I’d always been a bigger guy — hovering around 190 through most…
Golf This post contains affiliate links. Full disclosure here. I am an independent BODi Affiliate and may earn a commission on BODi purchases, at no extra cost to you. #BODiAffiliate Most weekend golfers “warm up” by buying a bucket of range balls and pounding driver for 15 minutes. Then they walk to the first tee,…
Finance Here’s something they don’t teach you in any MBA program — and I have one, so I can say this with full authority. Most of the financial metrics people obsess over are noise. Your credit score, the Dow Jones daily movement, your 401(k) balance on any given Tuesday — none of it tells you…
Beach Living I made the decision in the summer of 2021. I’d just survived my first Pennsylvania winter after moving back from Dallas, and I remember standing in my kitchen thinking, What did I do this for? I’d lived in San Diego. Los Angeles. Dallas. Warm places where the sun didn’t disappear for five months…
